title: Urinary kallikrein excretion in normotensive aging female rats.
abstract: The effect of aging on the intrarenal kallikrein-kinin system activity was investigated in normotensive 3-, 10-, 20-, and 30-month-old female Wistar rats. Urinary kallikrein excretion was measured by three independent assays (immunoreactive concentration, kininogenase, and amidolytic activities) and was found to decrease progressively from 10 to 30 months. In the 30-month-old rats the urinary immunoreactive kallikrein excretion represented 40-44% of the level detected in 3-month-old rats. Active and total kallikrein exhibited the same magnitude of reduction. Furthermore, the active to inactive kallikrein ratio remained unchanged throughout the life period studied. The level of urinary kallikrein inhibitor was studied by measuring the recovery of purified rat urinary kallikrein added in the samples; no change was observed with aging. None of the factors known at present to influence kallikrein excretion could be evoked to explain this age-related decrease. It is therefore suggested that this decrease may reflect a progressive impairment of the intrarenal endocrine function or an alteration in the secretion of the enzyme.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U133 Faculté de Médecine Rangueil, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Girolami
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Corman
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000652:urine*; D000818:Animals; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005260:Female; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D007610:Kallikreins / Q000652:urine*; D007668:Kidney / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D007705:Kinins / Q000378:metabolism; D009929:Organ Size; D011507:Proteinuria / Q000209:etiology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D007705:Kinins; D007610:Kallikreins